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To quote an article by Professor Henry Lewis gates:
The most comprehensive analysis of shipping records over the course of the slave trade is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, edited by professors David Eltis and David Richardson. (While the editors are careful to say that all of their figures are estimates, I believe that they are the best estimates that we have, the proverbial “gold standard†in the field of the study of the slave trade.) Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000.
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Wasn't the first black man to be sold as a slave sold by another black man?
Many African Americans were sold into slavery by other Africans. Slavery was a common practice in Africa, so they sold slaves to the Europeans and took part in the slave trade.
How were enslaved africans treated after they reached the Americas by planatation owners?
after enslaved africans reached the colonies all of them were taken to slave markets and sold and they were beat very badly when they be direspectful and dont do the stuff the people tell them to ndo
Who motherwas sold into slavery?
Many slaves mothers
Where would slaves come from?
Slaves would come from small villages that they lived in. African slaves came from various countries in Africa and were sold by other Africans to Europeans to be shipped to the Americas.
How did the early slave trade affect both Africans and English colonies?
africans were made ino enslaved africans. they were sold in the english colonies. later were sold as workers, which made the engish colonists lives much easier. the africans suffered terribly. :(
